They are inviting a great curse upon themselves. Inevitably they too will suffer terribly.

Disco_Destroyer wrote:

MIDEAST: Aid Rots Outside Gaza
By Erin Cunningham

Aid meant for Gaza going waste in Egypt.
Credit:Erin Cunningham

AL-ARISH, Egypt, Apr 15 (IPS) - Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of aid intended for the Gaza Strip is piling up in cities across Egypt's North Sinai region, despite recent calls from the United Nations to ease aid flow restrictions to the embattled territory in the wake of Operation Cast Lead.

Food, medicine, blankets, infant food and other supplies for Gaza's 1.5 million people, coming from governments and non-governmental agencies around the world, are being stored in warehouses, parking lots, stadiums and on airport runways across Egypt's North Sinai governorate.

A UN report has found Israel responsible for six major crimes committed against Palestinians during the three-week offensive in the Gaza Strip.

The report released on Tuesday blamed Israel for six serious incidents leading to death, injuries, or damage during the Gaza War, AFP reported.

"In six of the nine incidents the board concluded that the death, injuries and damage involved were caused by military actions, using munitions launched or dropped from the air or fired from the ground, by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)," the report said.

United Nations Headquarters Board of Inquiry launched a probe into nine incidents after Israel bombed several UN schools and buildings in December's war against Palestinians.

Two UN schools were bombed in a single day which led to the death of at least 50 people most of them women and children who took refuge in the buildings. The 22-day war left at least 1,350 people killed in the strip...

......Few people know that Israel is the only state to be given a conditional admission. Under General Assembly Resolution 273, Israel was admitted on the condition that it grant all Palestinians the right to return to their homes and receive compensation for lost or damaged property, according to General Assembly Resolution 194 paragraph 11. Suffice to say, Israel has never lived up to these terms, and never intended to.

For 60 years Israel has violated its terms of admission, and for 60 years the UN has done nothing about it. It has watched as Israel heaped misery upon misery on Palestine, and violated international law with impunity.

After “Operation Cast Lead,” no person, no country, no democracy can look at Israel without thinking of the inhuman slaughter and destruction committed by the axis powers in World War II, though one could have said the same about numerous past massacres. What atrocities might the world have been spared if the UN had refused to admit Israel 60 years ago?

Of course, the immediate post war world was a different time. The world had just witnessed the horrors of Hitler’s racist excesses, and collective Western guilt for the Holocaust dictated attitudes toward the idea of Jewish state. Even the UN could not withstand the moral pressure.

On Nov. 29, 1947, it passed General Assembly Resolution 181, “The Partition Plan,” to carve a Jewish state out of Arab Palestine. However, it was never ratified by the Security Council, and so does not exist in law, which means the UN played no role in the creation of Israel. Nevertheless, “The Partition Plan” was utterly illegal and a violation of the UN Charter, because the UN had no right or power to take land from one people and give it to another.

If it hopes to play a meaningful role in the 21st century, the UN must do more than simply promise to enact reforms. It must search deep within its soul to redress the fundamental violations of its founding principles, which have long since ceased to have any force. That recommitment must begin now, for it was 60 years ago today, May 11, 1949, that Israel became a member of the UN. The UN cannot hope to achieve any measure of peace or justice as long as it condones war crimes, which it does every day that Israel is allowed to flout its terms of admission............

This article is so very weird...I'm tempted to re-write part of it for 'illumination':-

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...The drill simulates simultaneous rocket strikes from the US and Japan and missile attacks from Taiwan and Guam.

It will test the way rescue services deal with attacks, including conventional, chemical and biological strikes against large population centres.

The exercise will also simulate a wave of Yakuza suicide bombings.

"We will be exercising the doomsday scenario of simultaneous strikes against N.Korea on all fronts and by different means," Vice Marshal Kim Yong-chun, a defence ministry spokesman, said last week.

On Tuesday, air-raid sirens will sound across the country and Koreans must scramble to shelters, in some areas within seconds and others within no more than three minutes...

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The parallels are extraordinary - straight out of the manual on 'How to Kow a Population 101' ?

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Any sign of Peter Power and Visor Consultants per chance?_________________JO911B.
"for we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities, against powers, against rulers of the darkness of this world, against wicked spirits in high places " Eph.6 v 12

“It is impossible to expect us to agree in advance to the principle of a Palestinian state without assurances that this state will be demilitarized.

“On a matter so critical to the existence of Israel, we must first have our security needs addressed.

“Therefore, today we ask our friends in the international community, led by the United States, for what is critical to the security of Israel: Clear commitments that in a future peace agreement, the territory controlled by the Palestinians will be demilitarized: namely, without an army, without control of its airspace, and with effective security measures to prevent weapons smuggling into the territory – real monitoring, and not what occurs in Gaza today. And obviously, the Palestinians will not be able to forge military pacts.”

Why should Jews be the only people on earth who are allowed to CREATE an apartheid state within which it is internationally accepted that they can exercise a racist agenda? how can there possibly be any viable future for such a state, particularly considering its treatment of its neighbours?

Only a one-state solution stands a hope of achieving long-term stability.

They Denied Us So They Would Not Have to Ram Us!Sharehttp://www.facebook.com/CynthiaMcKinney#/note.php?note_id=116065966345 &ref=mf
Today at 14:00
The Israelis are hopping mad. And they're flexing their muscles in all the ugly places. They can't ram us again without sparking an international uproar, so they're trying to stop us from leaving the port at all. The Limasol, Cyprus Port Authority which controls the port of Larnaca also, sent their inspector to Larnaca with a letter saying that the boat failed inspection, only thing, the letter was written BEFORE he even arrived in Larnaca to do the inspection! Reuters is doing the story at this very moment saying that we were prevented from leaving due to Cypriot authorities. We just learned from a Cyprus government source that pressure is being applied by Israel to deny us departure credentials. It appears, then, that Israel is putting us into contortions because they don't want us to take cement into Gaza. After white phosphorus, depleted uranium, DIME, cluster bombs, F16s, death, destruction, and mayhem. All of *this* over a few bags of cement. Can you believe???

1. Read the Haaretz article here, showing Israeli concern about us taking cement to Gaza
2. Hear the interview with Don Debar on the contortions we're being put through by Cyprus Port Authority
3. Read the Reuters article here (interesting that the story broke in Israel and not Cyprus!!)
4. Individuals have already started to contact the Cyprus UN Mission and their DC Embassy to inquire why they are arbitrarily not allowing the Spirit of Humanity and the Free Gaza to set sail.

1. Here is the Ha'aretz article:

Last update - 17:00 18/06/2009
Activists plan to send Gaza cement, in violation of Israel blockade
By Reuters and Haaretz Service

Activists campaigning for an end to Gaza's blockade by Israel will sail to the Hamas-run enclave from Cyprus despite the presence of the Israeli navy, they said on Thursday.

Two boats, including one carrying cement and building supplies -- materials not permitted in by Israel over fears that they could be used for military purposes -- will sail from Cyprus on June 25, the multi-national Free Gaza Movement said.

"We are taking 15 tons of cement, which is just a token of how much the Palestinians need, because the Israelis won't allow building supplies into Gaza," said Greta Berlin, a representative of the group.

The group started regular shuttles to Gaza from Cyprus in August 2008, but was turned back by the Israeli navy on its last journey in mid-January of this year.

Israel tightened a blockade on Gaza in 2007 after the Islamist Hamas took control of the enclave, a strip of land that is home to 1.5 million people.

Israeli forces bombed and then invaded Gaza in late December 2008 in a bid to rout out militants lobbing rockets into Israel, badly battering its already decrepit infrastructure.

Related articles:
U.S. ups pressure on Israel to end Gaza blockade
Ex-president Carter urges Obama to remove Hamas from U.S. terror list

Repeat: Extract from 'Pawns in the Game'... imo, a book to put on the required reading list for anyone prepared to face up to the real evils in our midst:-

Quote:

... ... ...Before she usurped power in Germany, Rosa Luxemberg was promised the same financial assistance and military aid the international bankers had given to Lenin and Trotsky a year before. The initial stages of her revolutionary effort were financed by the fund they made available through the Soviet Ambassador Joffe. The revolutionary effort only failed to accomplish what Lenin had achieved in Russia when the promised aid failed to materialize after Rosa had launched her initial onslaught. Then she realized her Jewish Spartacus Bund had been betrayed by the very men she considered her friends and supporters. This incident alone should prove that “The Secret Power”, behind the world revolutionary movement, is not concerned about the welfare of the Jews any more than it is about the Gentiles. The majority of the Directors of the W.R.M. are men who descended from the Khazars, Tartars, and other Mongol-Asiatic non-semitic races. They adopted the Jewish religion to suit their own selfish purposes between the 7th and 8th centuries.[2] They have used Jews exactly as they have used Gentiles as “Pawns in the Game”.

The purpose of the double-cross was two-fold. The men who plot and plan the World Revolutionary Movement did not want Germany sovietized until after they had used the German people to fight another war against Britain. They calculated a second World War would render both Empires so utterly exhausted that they could then be easily subjugated by the resources of the U.S.S.R.s they controlled under Lenin’s dictatorship. In order to start a Second World War, they considered it was necessary to build up within Germany an intense anti-semitic hatred for the purpose of dividing Europe into two opposing camps — Fascist and Anti-Fascist. The plan required all communized countries to remain neutral, in a military sense, while their agents did everything possible to aggravate the adverse conditions the master-minds created. ... ... ...

Psalm 94:16 Who will stand up for me against evildoers? Who will take his stand for me against those who do wickedness?

If not us then Who?_________________"We will lead every revolution against us!" - attrib: Theodor Herzl

Britain denies 'arms embargo' of Israel
By HAVIV RETTIG GUR AND JONNY PAUL IN LONDON

Britain denied on Monday that it had imposed an arms embargo on Israel in the wake of January's Operation Cast Lead.

Both the Foreign Office in London and the embassy in Tel Aviv told The Jerusalem Post that media reports claiming a "partial arms embargo" were incorrect.

Rather, five arms export licenses to British companies for the sale of military equipment to Israel were revoked because their use during Operation Cast Lead constituted a "contravention" of the conditions of the sale.

The revocation came after a British government review of 182 arms export licenses to Israel. All five revoked licenses were related to the upkeep of the Navy's Sa'ar 4.5 gunboats.

"Some of the licenses have been revoked," confirmed an embassy spokesperson, "but it's very short of being an arms embargo or sanctions of any kind."... ... ...blah blah blah

_________________"We will lead every revolution against us!" - attrib: Theodor Herzl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQuPqRBm9gw_________________'And he (the devil) said to him: To thee will I give all this power, and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered, and to whom I will, I give them'. Luke IV 5-7.

Just to help balance the thread, and to let posters know of one of the many good Jewish groups; here is IJAN's latest Anniversary Bulletin:

Anniversary Bulletin:

IJAN's First Year
Support the Gaza Freedom March
Demand Dayton to exit Palestine
Challenge Islamophobia in the U.S. judicial system
Tell IGLTA that Apartheid Israel is not for LGBT Leisure Tourism!

IJAN is a growing international network of Jews whose Jewish identities are not based on Zionism but on a plurality of histories and experiences. We share a commitment to participation in the legacy of struggles against colonization and imperialism. As such, we struggle against Zionism and its manifestation in the State of Israel’s historic and ongoing ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people and the confiscation of their land.

This bulletin comes out on the eve of IJAN’s first anniversary. Please join us in welcoming in the new year with action that reflects our commitment to Palestinian liberation. In the bulletin below, are some words of reflection about the current state of affairs in which our work occurs. You will also find four suggestions for simple actions you can take this week to move the work forward in the coming year. Please participate in these efforts to: support an international campaign to end the siege on Gaza, remove US General Dayton from the West Bank, provide solidarity for a US citizen facing 60 years in prison for false charges by an Islamophobic state, and support activists in Israel attempting to keep Israel from being promoted as a travel destination. We look forward to another year of working together toward the liberation of Palestine and justice for all.

IJAN’s First Year

As we approach the first anniversary of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN), we remember the anniversary of Sabra and Shatila and over 61 years of Palestinian struggle against ethnic cleansing. We are reminded that the latest siege and blockade of Gaza is part of this ongoing colonization of Palestine. Through our actions over this anniversary we intend to honor the second intifada, which reignited the international solidarity movement from which our network emerged…

Much has changed since the release of the founding Charter of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network on 29 September 2008. The Palestinian call for boycott of, divestment from, and sanctions against Israel (BDS) is gaining in presence and impact, both internationally and inside Israel. Israel’s barbaric assault on Gaza has inspired humanitarian efforts to break the siege, calls for prosecuting Israeli war criminals, and the breaking of diplomatic ties by Venezuela, Bolivia, and Mauritania.

Against the backdrop of this increased oppression, we are witnessing efforts to resume a negotiated ‘peace’ brokered by the United States. The alleged ‘peace plan’ picks up where the Oslo Accords left off. That project was successfully interrupted by second intifada, and it must not be permitted to reemerge in the form of a series of separate and caged Palestinian bantustans on 22 percent of historic Palestine….

The work ahead is to hold our own governments accountable for their support and funding of Israeli apartheid and colonization, and to mobilize public opinion to achieve this goal. To this end, the increasingly successful BDS campaign is our most powerful tool. In our second year, IJAN hopes to continue its work with those committed to the liberation of the Palestinian people as part of the broader struggle against racism, colonialism, and imperialism worldwide.

Click here to read the full statement, including IJAN’s accomplishments in our first year and our plans for the following year.

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Support the Gaza Freedom March

>> Cliquez sur ici pour lire notre rapport de support en FRANÇAIS.

The framework of the Gaza Freedom March to take place in January, 2010, was initially challenged by highly-respected Palestinian activists. Their criticisms led to a compromise that satisfied both the Palestinian critics and most of the initial organizers. This compromise was reflected in a "Statement of Context" that is now part of the call and locates the struggle to lift the siege on Gaza within the broader context of the 60 plus year history of colonization of Palestine and Palestinian resistance. Since then, there has been an outpouring of support for the March from Palestinian civil society. IJAN endorses the March and is partnering to make it a success. IJAN France is organizing a delegation.

Click here to read IJAN’s full statement of support on Electronic Intifada.

IJAN endorsed the call of the US Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) to decry the U.S. and Israel exploitation of internal Palestinian divisions through the supplying, training, and supervising of Palestinian Authority security forces to quell Palestinian resistance in the West Bank. As the USPCN notes, liberation struggles throughout the world have been subject to these same imperialist tactics. And, like solidarity activists before us, our responsibility lies in attempting stop history from repeating itself.

Please join the US Palestinian Community Network in calling for a withdrawal of Dayton and an end to US-funded death squads in the West Bank.

Click here to read and sign the statement.

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Call for US IJAN Action:
Challenge Islamophobia in the U.S. Judicial System

Help IJAN reach its goal of sending 250 letters to the sentencing Judge!

The US War on Terror uses Islamophobia to justify the targeting of Muslim, Arab, and South and West Asian individuals, communities and organizations. Many of those serving time have been targeted simply for their participation in organizations or religious institutions that are deemed a terrorist threat without any clear evidence of actual participation in anything remotely connected to harming civilian populations. This is the case with Ehsanul Sadequee (Shifa).

On April 17, 2006, 19 year old Ehsanul Sadequee (Shifa), an American born Muslim, was kidnapped from Bangladesh under the direction of the Bush administration and handed over to the US on alleged charges of conspiracy to provide material support to terrorism and is currently awaiting trial. Shifa has served over three years in solidarity confinement without trial or having been convicted on an offense. He has been subjected to physical abuse, psychological torture, and health ailments have been ignored and exacerbated by federal prison staff. More information can be found at http://www.freeshifa.com/.

PLEASE TAKE 10 MINUTES TO SEND A LETTER TO REQUEST A REDUCTION OF THE SENTENCE SHIFA IS FACING—UP TO 60 YEARS IN PRISON FOR INVALID CHARGES OF TERRORISM.

Click here for a sample letter.

Tell IGLTA that Apartheid Israel is not for LGBT Leisure Tourism!

On October 10-16, 2009, the International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association (IGLTA) is planning to hold a tourism conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, aimed at boosting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) leisure tourism to Israel. The audience of this conference is expected to be made up mostly of travel agents who specialize in promoting LGBT tourism. With this conference IGLTA, in cooperation with an Israeli LGBT organization, the Aguda, will give its symbolic and financial support to a state that continually occupies, oppresses and dispossess millions of Palestinians and murders and imprisons many thousands of them. Queer activists and groups in Canada, Israel and the United States are calling on LGBTQI people and friends around the world to demand that IGLTA cancel its planned conference in Israel and cease any promotion of tourism to this country.

Please email International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association, calling on it to cancel its planned conference in Israel and any promotion of tourism to this country.

Click here to read the full statement, and see a sample letter with a full list of addressees.

Israel minister calls off visit to Britain over fear of arrest over 'war crimes'

By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 9:12 PM on 05th October 2009

An Israeli Cabinet minister has called off a visit to Britain because of concerns he could be arrested on suspicion of committing war crimes.

The decision by Moshe Yaalon, a former military chief who is now a vice prime minister, came a week after Palestinian activists tried unsuccessfully to have Israel's defence minister arrested during a visit to Britain.

A spokesman said Mr Yaalon decided not to take up his invitation to a charity fundraising event 'to avoid playing into the hands of anti-Israel propaganda'.

Several Israeli officials have been threatened with legal action in Britain under the legal principle of 'universal jurisdiction', which states that the most serious crimes can be prosecuted here, even if they were allegedly committed abroad.

Palestinian organisations have pursued Israeli officers who took part in operations in which civilians were killed. So far, they have failed to have anyone arrested.

Last week, they used the principle to demand the arrest of defence minister Ehud Barak, while he attended the Labour Party conference.

Twenty-two activists were arrested at Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's speech to the World Affairs Council on 22 October between 6:30 and 7:30pm at the Westin St. Francis Hotel at Union Square in San Francisco. Inside the auditorium, activists began disrupting the event by placing Olmert under citizens arrest. Every couple of minutes, more activists disrupted his speech, barely allowing him to speak, by reading the names of the children killed in Gaza last winter, reading from the recently published Goldstone report and displaying banners that read "Lift the Siege on Gaza" and "War Crimes are Not Free Expression!" Activists were removed from the auditorium chanting "war criminal!" and taken to the Tenderloin Police Station where they are being held for citation. Ten additional persons participated in the action but were not arrested.

CLICK HERE to tell the Israeli government, the media, US Congress and Richard Goldstone:
I SUPPORT THE GOLDSTONE REPORT

Frankly, I've had enough of the lies and distortions surrounding the UN Goldstone Report. I've had enough of the maneuvering by Israel, the US, and other countries in order to dismiss the report and its authors and bury it altogether.

If you are as dismayed as I am, sign at SupportGoldstone.org, and we'll let key Israeli officials, members of Congress, and Goldstone himself know how many of you support the report.

What we need, instead of the smear campaigns, is discussion of the report's substance: the use of phosphorus that literally burned people alive (I saw the terrible impact with my own eyes on a recent trip to Gaza); or the use of metal darts called flechettes that twist when they enter the body; or the long term impacts of contaminated land and water.

Early next week the report heads to the floor of the US Congress and the UN General Assembly, and we're expecting continued pressure to have this important document roundly dismissed.

The continued attacks on the Goldstone Report prevent accountability for the civilian victims before, during and after the attack on Gaza -- both Palestinians and Israelis -- and shred the rule of law.

That's why we are asking you to say: I support the Goldstone Report. Once you sign, we'll tell you how to easily and quickly lobby Congress and your UN Ambassador in the next few days.

The truth is that the Goldstone Report is a well-researched, fair-minded report. It accuses both Israel and Hamas of war crimes and possible crimes against humanity during the attack on Gaza, and it calls on Israel and Hamas to conduct credible, independent investigations or face the International Criminal Court.

I support the Goldstone Report.

Israel decided not to cooperate with the investigation and now claims that the report and its results are biased. Worse yet, Israel claims that the report negates its right to defend its population, when in reality, all the report does is insist that such a defense take place within the bounds of international law.

The United States and other countries are repeating the same lines, and have exerted great diplomatic pressure to kill the report.

The US Congress is getting ready to pass a resolution next week calling on President Obama to do everything he can to bury the Goldstone Report. The UN General Assembly will vote on it. Israel might launch its own investigation, if it is pressured enough to do so. And if it does, our task will be to ensure that the investigation is comprehensive, impartial, and aimed towards addressing, punishing and preventing future human rights abused - and not at changing the laws of war such that another blatant assault on civilian life and property as the Gaza war will ever become acceptable under international law.

Please join us in supporting the Goldstone Report now.

Thanks,

Cecilie Surasky
Jewish Voice for Peace

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Contact us directly at Jewish Voice for Peace. 1611 Telegraph Avenue, Suite 550. Oakland, CA 94612 510-465-1777 info@jvp.org_________________'And he (the devil) said to him: To thee will I give all this power, and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered, and to whom I will, I give them'. Luke IV 5-7.

The agreement came after a Turkish mediator reached a deal with the Egyptian consul in Jordan's Red Sea port of Aqaba.

The convoy will now head to the Syrian port of Latakia to sail from there to the Egyptian port of El Arish, and then to Gaza.

Viva-Palestina which have been stranded in Aqaba for five days is led by George Galloway, a British MP.

Turkey dispatched an official on Saturday to try convince the Egyptians to allow the convoy to go through the Red Sea port of Nuweiba, the most direct route to Gaza after Egypt insisted that the convoy can only enter through El-Arish, on its Mediterranean coast.

Viva Palestina and another convoy, The Gaza Freedom March, were planning to arrive on Sunday to commemorate the first anniversary of Israel's war on Gaza that killed 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis.

Which brings us to the turning-point in US/Israeli relations, the Six-Day War and the murderous and treacherous Israeli attack on the USS Liberty (which happened just off El Arish), and also the Israeli massacre of thousands of Egyptian prisoners-of-war (whiich happened in the El Arish area).
For info about the Liberty attack, search our Forums, and watch 'Dead in the Water' and 'Loss of Liberty' videos, available to watch on-line, and read Peter Hounam's book, 'Operation Cyanide'._________________'And he (the devil) said to him: To thee will I give all this power, and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered, and to whom I will, I give them'. Luke IV 5-7.

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